Running Parallel
Maya's been basically stalking Chloe's Instagram since freshman year. Okay, stalking is harsh. Let's say she's been conducting extensive research on the girl who sits three rows ah...
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Maya's been basically stalking Chloe's Instagram since freshman year. Okay, stalking is harsh. Let's say she's been conducting extensive research on the girl who sits three rows ah...
The chlorine smell hit me before I even opened my eyes. 6 AM swim practice. Again. My iphone buzzed against the locker room bench. 3 new notifications. Probably the group chat dis...
My palms were sweating so bad I could barely grip my phone. This is what happens when your best friend Maya dares you to "accidentally" bump into your crush in the cafeteria. "You...
The coaxial cable hung from our living room wall like a dead snake, knotted where my dad had tried to fix it after I yanked it too hard during my meltdown over sophomore year grade...
I spent seventh grade feeling like a goldfish in a bowl—transparent, constantly watched, and somehow always forgetting everything important after three seconds. That's what happens...
Maya's parents had cancelled the cable again. Third time this month. Something about "budget cuts" and "rediscovering family time," which really meant Maya was stuck in her room wi...
Leo adjusted his headset, feeling like the world's most pathetic **spy**. His actual job title? "Cable technician assistant." But in his head, he was undercover, gathering intel on...
Maya's thumbs hovered over her iPhone screen, doom-scrolling through Instagram while the pool party raged around her. The bluetooth speaker blasted something that sounded exactly l...
Maya felt like a spy in her own life, watching from the bleachers while everyone else seemed to have received the manual on how to be sixteen. She'd spend lunch periods pretending ...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her lukewarm soda like it was a lifeline. Somewhere inside, someone's **dog** — a Golden Retriever with zero chill — had already knock...
Maya's iPhone buzzed with that weird vibration pattern—the one her dad had programmed when she was twelve and still thought it was cute. Now, at sixteen, it felt like a digital lea...
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her towel like it was a lifeline. The annual July 4th block party. Every. Single. Year. "Come on in!" Jake yelled, splashing water th...